Receptacle for printing presses



Mar. 27, 1923.

1,449,750. H. F. HAMPSHIRE ET AL. -v f RECEPTACLE FOR PRINTING PRESSES.

ORIGINAL FILED DEc.24. |920.

J7 QRNEY 4Patterned Mar, 27, 1923.

,natte HARRY r. HAMPsHInn, or PHiLnDnLrnIm rnNNsYLvANrA, AND riminiv B.CRAN- nina, or Los ANGELns'OALIrORNIA, assieNons To THOMSON PRINTING ooiu- ,PANY, A CORPORATION or Naw JERSEY. y

RECEPTACLE FOR PRINTING PRESSES.

Original application filed December 24, 1920, Serial No. 433,014.Divided and. this application iled August fo @ZZ whom z5 may conce/m.' I

Be it known that we, HARRY F. HAMP- SHIRE and FRANK B. CRANMNR, citizensof the United States, residing, respectively, at

5 Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles LosAngeles County, California, have invented certain new and -usefulImprovements in Receptacles for Printing Presses, of which the'following is a specification.

The object of this inve-ntion is to provide an improved receptacleparticularly adapted to be used in association with a delivery mechanismfor receiving printed sheets or similar matter from any desired form ofprinting-presses.

In the printing art, the sheets, leaflets, booklets, and the like,having received inkimpressions in a printing press of whatever charactermay be available, are delivered either directly therefrom or through theaid of a special delivery mechanism, such for instance as that shown inapplicants copending application Serial No. 433,014, and

of which this application comprises a division, and by which deliverymechanism printed articles are adapted to be delivered directed into theimproved receptacle.

Another object is to provide a receptacle having a bottom and anupwardly extending side member unitarily connected, and adapted to betilted into any desired angular adjustment for purposes which willhereinafter appear.

Vith these and otherobjects in view, the present invention comprisesfurther novel details of construction and Operation fully brought out inthe following description when read in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawing, in which Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the improvedreceiving-receptacle in its preferred embodiment; Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the receptacle comprising the presentinvention is com posed of a substantially horizontally extending bottomwall 1, from one edge portion of which extends upwardly, and preferablyslightly outwardly, a wall 2, which is adapted to be positioned closelyadjacent to the delivery mechanism of a printing-press, or in fact anyother type of mechanism with Serial No. 490,924.

which the improved device is adapted to be used.

The side walls 1 and 2 are connected by upwardly extending preferablyparallel. l

-walls 3, which may be of any desired shape 4extending plane member 5,which is preferably rigidly secured to vmove in exact unison andconstant angular relation with the said false bottom'a.

The side walls 3 are provided with suitable means whereby co-operationwith the member 5 either directly or indirectly retains the latter in agiven angular position as illustrated in Fig. 3, and in the preferredembodiment of the invention the said retaining me-ans may comprisespaced apertures 6 in the side walls 3, through which suitable pins 7may be extended in order to engage and adjustably position the saidmember 5 and false bottom 4 unitarily associated therewith.

This receptacle may be supported in any desired manner either directly'upon the same floor or other foundation with a printing-press deliverymechanism or other device, or the same may be raised in order to assumeany desired elevation by means of legs or brackets 8. The receptacle asa whole is then positioned adjacent to such a mechanism as thosereferred to, so that printed sheets or other articles entering thereintopass over the upper limit of the wall 2 and fall by gravity between theside walls 3 and upon the false bottom 1, which latter obviously may bein a horizontal position.

However, if the said false bottom slants in such a manner as is shown inFig. 3, the said printed sheets will then continue over the same untileach successive sheet inwardly engages Yand its motion is arrested-bythe plane member 5, with the result that .the sheets are stacked uponsaid false nbottom with their ,forwardvedges even,v and Nfrom whichposition suecessivepiles may be Inanua-lly removed whenever and as maybe desired. The removal of articles from the improved receptacle mayoftenloe facilitated by tilting the false bottom and forward sidev wallconnected therewith outwardly, after which this structure may bereset atany desired angular relation by adjusting the pins? within'the apertures6. Y

Having thus described our invention, what wefelaim and desire to protectby Letters Patentof the United States is :f

l. A receptacle, comprising thecombination,;of oppositely positioned endwalls, and bottom and rearifwalls connecting-said Yend walls, with atray pivotally supported between said end -walls and .comprising a falsebottom and'a front Wall vfor 'said receptacle, adapted to move as a unitto discharge a pile of ,printed sheets from said receptacle, and `meansto adjustably position said tray angularly with respect to its pivotalsupport.

A receptacle, Comprising .the ,Combinationwotl oppositelypositionedjwalls, a tray 4comprisinga bottomwand aside Wall pivotallysupported `by said first-named walls, andmeans to-adjustably retain saidtray in different predetermined positions with respect tosaid'irst-named walls. y. i

.A receptacle, comprising the combination of a supporting member, a trayeomprisingY angularly disposed walls unitarily 'eonneeted, meansconnected with said supportingfrmember topivotally support said trayvwith relation thereto, and meansrto adjustably retain saidtray in anypredetermined position angularly with respect to said supportingvmember. v

yIintestimony whereof we have aixed our signatures. D t

HARRY HAMPSHIRE. FRANK B. CRANMER.

